“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)
Work
Data Visualization
1 million deaths: Remembering the lives lost to COVID-19 in America
Chinese Historical Society of America Museum’s Collection
Random
LEGO Gives Van Gogh’s Starry Night a Three-Dimensional Spin
This ugly t-shirt makes you invisible to facial recognition tech
Graphic Design
Photography
Lush Canopies of Hundreds of Purple Flowers Erupt from Japan’s Wisteria
Facing Life: Eight stories of life after life in California’s prisons.
Industrial Design
Vibia introduces a lighting system made from a conductive textile ribbon
Web Design/UX/UI
Systems thinking is what makes designers great